The Tories lied their way to Brexit. What is this but sleaze?

The key figures in the Owen Paterson debacle were all Leavers. To many Remainers, that will come as no surprise

There is a close link between the parliamentary sleaze scandal and - you've guessed it - Brexit.

The plotters who tried scandalously to exonerate Owen Paterson and undermine the course of parliamentary justice were all Brexiters - some of them extremely so. From Paterson himself to the prime minister, who attended the dinner where the plot was hatched, taking in the leader of the house, Jacob Rees-Mogg, who enthusiastically supported it, they all share responsibility for what is now being increasingly recognised as the catastrophe of Brexit. For, make no mistake about it, Brexit was, and remains, a sleazy operation.